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It’s going to look like I did nothing but write posts today….not true!  Most of them were started, even finished, but not proof-read, spell-checked, all that editing type stuff….or they just needed that last little bit more to make them complete.  But I will admit that working on the blog is a “productive procrastination” ploy…..I should be doing paperwork; I should be working on the website to get confirmed events up; I should be confirming those last few events…..but….. 

After a month of working on the fall schedule, I just don’t want to see it today!  Which then also rules out website updates.  And it’s one of those days where I know I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on the paperwork, which would result in errors, which would result in even more work.

What I feel like doing is curling up with a good book….and hey look!  I got a shipment in yesterday and added 5 to my list….so, maybe just for an hour.  I do need to read them so I can make recommendations <wink, wink>  More productive procrastination

I’ve been busy planning all the fall events for the past month or so….and I think I now have a working schedule.  Finally!  It’s at least the 5th iteration, and still not finalized or totally confirmed, but it’s very close.

I’m both excited about it and exhausted looking at it!  If I’ve chosen the right things to offer (meaning everything is actually attended by living, breathing students) I’m going to be working 11 hour days 4 days out of my 6 days per week.  Well, working might be stretching it….but I’ll be at the store for 11 hours, 4 days a week!  We’ll see how it goes….might be time to have Amber work some mornings during the week.

I’m excited because it’s the start of a new ’semester’ with some new courses like:

• a Faery Workshop in September and again in October
• Holistic Health Series on Tuesdays – various local healers will be here to give an overview of their work and answer your questions
• Psychic Skills Series – a set of 6 classes to get you started using your intuition, psychic senses and working with energy.
• Guided Meditation Circle on Thursdays – regular weekly meditation
• Energy Share – for all energy healers to share healing & conversation with others
• A Course in Miracles Study Group – one Sunday afternoon per month
• a Beginner’s Crystal workshop
• and a few more yet to be confirmed….

Then there’s the old favourites:

• Angel Awareness
• Monthly Reiki Share
• Chakra Readings
• Children’s StoryTime
• Mystical Mentorship for Teens PLUS new Mystical Mentorship for Children (this was Develop your Sixth Sense for Teens)
• Meditation Classes (with a new teacher)

I’m also still working on some Friday night events that will feature local authors and other inspiriation speakers.  As well, I’m planning on having a guest reader here one weekend a month.  Stay tuned!  As things are confirmed, I’m posting them to the website.

I actually finished this one a couple weeks ago…..but haven’t had a moment to comment on it. 

I found End of Days to be on par with anything by Sylvia Browne that I have read.  I read her books when I want a good, quick overview on a topic, and she delivered on this one. 

She starts out with a look at the various myths and prophecies from native traditions…..Mayan, Aztec, Hopi etc.  She also discusses several religions view on the end of days….from Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam to Rastafarinism(?), Baha’ism, and Zoroastrianism.  She then moves on the predictions of various prophets like Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Sir Isaac Newton.  Then it’s the doomsday cults.  And finally, she finishes up with her own predictions for the rest of this century.

As I said, it is a good overview and summary of a lot of the material out there on the end of the world predictions and prophecies….there isn’t a lot of depth to the material, but that’s not what I read Sylvia for anyway, so this book lived up to my expectations.  I would recommend it if you’re looking for a quick read on the topic.

WooHoo!  Hit 100 views!  Okay, so compared to some sites that’s nothing, but, I’m new at this! And I haven’t really promoted it yet, so I say 100 in a month is great!

Plus…Spambots have found me!  Yipee!  I’m starting to get hit with spam comments….guess that means it’s officially out there in the internet ether. 

Okay….enough silliness, time to get back to work.

I live with a cat.  Her name is Reno.  She is one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever had the pleasure to be owned by….but still aloof (she is a cat, after all!)  She’s also a klutz and scared of her own shadow.  I have never heard her hiss.  I’ve never seen her puff her fur to look intimidating.  I’ve never heard her growl.  She is 15 years old, and I’ve been owned by her for 14years and 3 months. 

Well,  this morning, I’m reading my usual line-up of blogs & websites as I eat my breakfast.  I hear a thump on the deck.  I wander over, munching my toast, to take a look and see…..nothing.  So, I figure it was another crow recovering the cherry it stole from my neighbours tree and then dropped on my deck….happens alot this time of year.  Back to my reading I go.  Reno stops by for a quick thank-you leg rub for the wonderful breakfast she’d just inhaled and heads over to her favourite sunning/bathing spot in front of the sliding-glass door out to the deck. 

I’m expecting a complaint ‘mrwewp’ over the fact that I’ve closed the screen door, but instead I hear a hiss.  A hiss!?! from Reno?!?  I jump up and see her all puffed up, and now growling….what the….?!?! Who’s taken possesion of my cat!

To give you a bit more context….this is the cat that ran as fast as possible, with her belly as low as possible from a chickadee that flew in one day.  The same cat, that let out pitiful howls of terror when two Stellar Jays ‘trapped’ her on the deck by sitting on the railing, one at each end, and needed me to ’save’ her…..and here she was all puffed out, standing up, hissing and growling!  Granted, she had a screen door between her and whatever meanancing thing this was out on the deck, so that may have given her some false courage.

What was out there?  Another cat!  Still not sure where it came from, or how exactly it got on the deck (this deck has no stairs, so no ground access)….and it was cowering at the far wall, seemingly terrified of Reno.   

I reached to open the screen, figuring that Reno would bolt the other way, but no….she’s right there, ready to charge.  So I grab Reno, taking her into the living room so I can go out and get the other cat without having to break up a fight.  As I’m coming back, I hear scrambling claws, mournful howls….what is going on now!  And where is the other cat!  I can’t see him anywhere.

Just as step out onto the deck, Reno is back, trying to force her way out….I push her back in as I close the door….catching a whisker or two, I think.  I turn to look for the other cat, thinking it’s crawled under my lounge chair….but no!  It’s hanging of the edge of the deck about to fall.  I’m only able to take one step before he falls…into the ornamental tree just off to the side of my deck.  He slides through the tree, and hits the ground, running at top speed.

He stops two yards over and looks back at me with that accusing look that only a cat can give that it was my fault he made such an undignified exit from the deck….and then he takes off at full speed.

As I go back inside, Reno insists on going out, so I let her.  Once she’s determined that her deck/territory is all clear, she comes back and tells me all about how she stood up to that interloper….she’s a very chatty cat …..and that some treats are in order for how bravely she protected me.  Good try, sweetheart…..I’m not buying!

It’s been an odd week. 

First, on Tuesday, I went to pick up a parcel for the store.  Now, for as long as the store has been open, parcels have gone to the postal outlet at Coquitlam Centre.  So, I of course automatically went there to pick it up.  After the usual 10-15 minutes of waiting in line, I get to the counter only to be told that my parcel isn’t there….it’s at Westwood 7-11.  To which I respond, “Where the heck is that?”  Of course, the clerk didn’t know, though he very (un)helpfully circled their phone number on the card for me. 

So, back in the car, I reach for my cell-phone to call them and get directions….no cell-phone!  Crap!  I left it at home on the charger.  Oh, well, the address on the card is Panarama Drive and I know where that is, so I should be able to find it.  Leave the mall, get onto Pinetree, start climbing the mountain….up, up, up…right to the end of Pinetree.  I know Panarama isn’t this high up, but how did I miss it!  Still feeling cocky about knowing where I am, and where I’m going, I refuse to get my map book out and carry on back down the mountain on some street….and finally find Panarama.  Yeah!  But which way to turn…left or right?  I choose left and cruise along looking for the 7-11.  Check the street names at an intesection and discover that I’m no longer on Panarama….What?!?  I didn’t turn anywhere!  That’s it, I pull over and get the map book out.  So much for knowing Coquitlam!  Find out that Panarama turns into Mountain something (which also explains why I didn’t see it when I was on Pinetree), so turn around and head back the way I came.  And FINALLY find the 7-11….about two blocks to the right of where I’d turned left! 

I get the parcel….I was hoping it was shipment of jewellery, turned out to just be publisher catalogues….and then have to figure out how to get down off the mountain.  This time I checked the map book before leaving the parking lot!  Was then home in about 5 minutes…..but the whole adventure took over an hour for what should have been a 10-15 minute stop.

Then on Thursday, when I went to leave home to come in to the store, I discovered that the house down the street was getting cement delivered, and my lane was completely blocked by the cement truck.  No way out!  They were moving the cement a wheelbarrow at a time to the front of the house….looked like I wasn’t going anywhere for awhile.  So, pulled out my book and sat in the car in my driveway reading until they finished up….about a half hour later.  Got the store open by 11:30 so not too bad after all.  But you think they could have warned their neighbours!  I wasn’t the only one stuck waiting.  A quick note in the mailbox would have been nice.

Then on Saturday…….my neighbour’s alarm clock woke me up at 6:30am.  But after that the rest of the day went okay, so I guess the frustrating things are done for now!

UPDATE – guess they weren’t as I just discovered (on Wednesday) I didn’t post this one on Saturday.  Oh well…..

What happened to July? 

I’m not ready for August.  I still have things from June to do!